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Yvette Hines: Let’s All Go to the Movies (Contest)
Monday, June 21st, 2021

UPDATE: The winner is…Eileen McCall!
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My ex-husband and I used movies as the nanny for our daughter. (No judgment!) I took her to the theaters when she was two months old. She didn’t know what was going on, but it was a loud action movie that she nursed and slept through—all of it. When I walked out, people commented that they didn’t know a baby was in the theater or asked, “the noises didn’t bother her?”. Nope, she literally slept like a baby. This inevitably made our daughter the movie addict that she is today. I will say, there are some movies we went to see, and I made the mistake of not watching the trailer—our choice was based on actors we liked. We had to sneak out at the end because we didn’t want anyone to know we took our seven-year-old to see Bad Teacher with Diaz and Timberlake. After that, we ruled that she could see any action, suspense, rom-com, but when it came to comedies, we must watch the trailer AND check the rating wasn’t NC 17. Now that it is just my daughter and me over the last six years, we have taken our movie watching in the theaters to a whole new level.

We used to go to the movies on Thursday night at midnight because that was when the new films dropped, and she loved going to school on Friday to tell her friends that she’d already seen the latest Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, or Twilight. She was the Siskel & Ebert of primary school (never a spoiler). Then people started doing horrible scary and life-changing actions, and now movies drop at a safer time. So, we still go on Thursdays, just early evening.  Most of my friends on the weekends invite me to dinner and a movie by first asking, “What haven’t you seen?”. But, I will easily lie and not tell them I’ve seen a movie they want to watch because I don’t mind seeing a movie twice. Shhh. Actually, I’ve seen movies four times in two weeks, because a different friend has asked me to go. I’m not one of those people who goes and can’t help talking through a movie with comments like “watch this.” I laugh when they laugh and still cry at touching scenes. As an author, I use those touching scenes to harvest the emotion I feel in a moment for a book I am writing.

My daughter is now in college, and we have the same taste in movies. We don’t do horror, spiritual thriller, or stupid comedies.  Now, you may be thinking at the moment, “Yvette, you haven’t said anything out of the ordinary.” You’re right. So, let me confess the level of our addiction.

We are members of our local movie theater, so we get our local fix for pennies on the dollar at each attendance. We take our movie going on the road. So, when we are making plans for a trip out of town or the country…we check how far the nearest theater is from the hotel. It is nothing to find us in the movies in Time Square, San Diego, New Jersey, or Quebec City. We are making plans to go to Washington State and South Korea, and we’ve already started scouting the theaters. By the way, if you are ever in Fort Lee, New Jersey, visit the iPic Theater; it is a marvelous experience.

My name is Yvette Hines, and I am a cinema addict.

Are you a cinema addict? If you are,
let me know the last movie you went to the theater to see.
😊

To Kiss a Flame

Genre: Contemporary Erotic Romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): 4 flames

The one thing that Aubrey Carsen always wanted was to be a firefighter with her two friends. She returns home to her small town and new firehouse, with secrets following her, only to prove herself like a proby. But she can take it. Soon she discovers that a man from her past, an old high school crush—a man too sexy to be wrapped up in a suit all day—is too close for comfort. The day she rescues a little boy from a tree, things begin to unfold in a way she never expected. Now, being back in town has a whole new outlook. Is it possible that her time has finally come and everything she’s wanted will fall in line? Even as she is afraid to believe it.

Pierce Emory, the bank loan manager, has been burned by love for the last time. His ex-fiancé walks out on him the week before their wedding, and he can’t see himself getting lost in love again. Then his beautiful, tough neighbor comes knocking at his door in a storm. She’s sexy as hell, but there’s something about her he can’t place. When he discovers the curvy beauty was the good girl from high school, the home before dark, and straight A’s, quiet type, he can’t believe her transformation. Now, she’s back in town, and the old spark between them has ignited into a flame that threatens to scorch them both.

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CONTEST

Drawing ONE winner from those who comment on my Let’s All Go to the Movies post on Delilah’s blog between June 21 – 28 June 2021. The winner will get an e-Copy of To Kiss a Flame, a Hero candle, and $10 Amazon GC.

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10 comments to “Yvette Hines: Let’s All Go to the Movies (Contest)”

  1. Colleen C.
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 12:33 pm · Link

    I have not been to the movies in forever… I tend to read more than anything… wait for things to be out on video.



  2. Misty Dawn
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 12:47 pm · Link

    I haven’t been to the movies in 2 years, but I have HBO Max on my Roku box. I watch a lot of newer movies on it instead. Our little towns theater is really small, so it’s harder to do social distancing in it.



  3. Terra oenning
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 1:31 pm · Link

    I haven’t been to the movies in a long time but we won tickets on a harley ride and can’t wait to let’s all go to the movies.



  4. Eileen McCall
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 1:33 pm · Link

    Seems like forever since I went to the movies. Can’t even remember the last one.



  5. bn100
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 2:46 pm · Link

    interesting movies



  6. Mary Preston
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    · June 21st, 2021 at 6:16 pm · Link

    My daughter and I love going to the movies. We went to see CRUELLA two weeks ago. Lots of fun.

    I saw the first A QUIET PLACE movie and LOVED it.



  7. Debra Guyette
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    · June 22nd, 2021 at 5:44 am · Link

    I have not been to the movies in forever. We love going but have not due to Covid.



  8. flchen1
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    · June 23rd, 2021 at 2:01 am · Link

    I’m not much of a movie goer at all! The few movies we watch as a family tend to either be Disney or Star Wars or something like Crazy Rich Asians 🙂 The rest of the family does enjoy movies a bit more, and will occasionally go with friends to see other stuff. Love that this is an interest you and your daughter share, Yvette!



  9. Beth
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    · June 23rd, 2021 at 1:20 pm · Link

    It’s been a couple years since I have been to the movies. And our local theater didn’t survive covid, so probably will be a long time til I go to a theater again since the nearest is an hour and half drive.



  10. Delilah
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    · July 2nd, 2021 at 7:25 am · Link

    Thanks to Yvette for such a fun topic! I’m a movie buff, too, and miss the smell of buttered popcorn and sitting back to let that great big screen make me feel like I’m right in the middle of the action!

    The winner of Yvette’s contest is…Eileen McCall! I’ll send your contact information along! Congrats!



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